Difference between DesignWidth and Width in UserControl in WPF
d:DesignHeight and d.DesignWidth are for the Designer (the WYSIWYG), in Visual Studio or in Expression Blend. Height and Width are actually for runtime.
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How to redirect to home page in JavaScript?
document.location.href=”https://stackoverflow.com/”;
Get access to parent control from user control – C#
Description You can get the parent control using Control.Parent. Sample So if you have a Control placed on a form this.Parent would be your Form. Within your Control you can do Form parentForm = (this.Parent as Form); More Information MSDN: Control.Parent Property Update after a comment by Farid-ur-Rahman (He was asking the question) My Control … Read more
How can I get the parent page from a User Control in an ASP.NET Website (not Web Application)
this.Page or from just about anywhere: Page page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as Page
Global Exception Handling for winforms control
You need to handle the System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException event for Windows Forms. This article really helped me: http://bytes.com/forum/thread236199.html.
Provide value on ‘System.Windows.Markup.StaticResourceHolder’ threw an exception
The problem is because of incorrect order of your styles. I mean that if we publish button style with reference on static resource NormalBrush, which is declared under the style, like this: <Style TargetType=”{x:Type Button}”> <Setter Property=”Template”> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType=”{x:Type Button}”> <Border Background=”{StaticResource NormalBrush}” > <ContentPresenter Name=”ButtonCont”></ContentPresenter> </Border> </ControlTemplate> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> <LinearGradientBrush x:Key=”NormalBrush” StartPoint=”0,0″ … Read more
Baseline snaplines in custom Winforms controls
As an update to the Miral’s answer.. here are a few of the “missing steps”, for someone new that’s looking how to do this. 🙂 The C# code above is almost ‘drop-in’ ready, with the exception of changing a few of the values to reference the UserControl that will be modified. Possible References Needed: System.Design … Read more
Strange Error – CS0012: The type x is defined in an assembly that is not referenced
I’m Mike’s coworker, and we worked out a solution. The type X is defined in his assembly, that is only in the GAC. Even though his ASP.NET web appplication did have a reference, it was failing to load from the GAC only for this UserControl. The rest of the application worked as expected. We confirmed … Read more
Ambiguous type reference. A type named `VisualState` occurs in at least two namespaces
This error(most of the time warning) will occur when using two or more references which contains same namespace and classes. in your case you are using VisualState which is part of PresentationFramework assembly and you might have added another assembly which contains same “VisualState” object with the same namespace “System.Windows” . you can resolve the … Read more
How to create WPF usercontrol which contains placeholders for later usage
ContentControls & ItemsControls are good for this, you can bind them to a property of your UserControl or expose them. Using a ContentControl (for placeholders in multiple disconnected places): <UserControl x:Class=”Test.UserControls.MyUserControl2″ xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” xmlns:mc=”http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006″ xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008″ Name=”control”> <Grid> <Button>Just a button</Button> <ContentControl Content=”{Binding PlaceHolder1, ElementName=control}”/> </Grid> </UserControl> public partial class MyUserControl2 : UserControl { public static … Read more